Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] security: allow application to specify UDP ports to PMD

[Tejasree Kondoj <ktejasree@marvell.com>]

Hi Akhil,

Please see inline.

Thanks
Tejasree

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 12:39 AM
> To: Tejasree Kondoj <ktejasree@marvell.com>; Radu Nicolau
> <radu.nicolau@intel.com>
> Cc: Narayana Prasad Raju Athreya <pathreya@marvell.com>; Anoob Joseph
> <anoobj@marvell.com>; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [EXT] RE: [PATCH] security: allow application to specify UDP ports to
> PMD
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> Hi Tejasree,
> 
> > Add UDP source and destination ports in ipsec_xform to allow
> > application to specify ports to be used for IPsec UDP encapsulation as
> > they are dynamically changed by NAT in between. Also adding an extra
> > flag to indicate whether PMD needs to perform encapsulation header
> > verification in case of inbound. In case of inline IPsec
> > implementation, verification of outer IP headers and UDP encapsulation
> > headers need to be handled in the PMD. For lookaside IPsec,
> > application can optionally offload this to the PMD.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tejasree Kondoj <ktejasree@marvell.com>
> > ---
> 
> I think we should add some usage of these newly added params
> - either in app/test or in examples/ipsec-secgw

[Tejasree] You mean adding test case in either of the above apps or addition of PMD implementation also? Also is the proposal sounds fine?

> 
> Regards,
> Akhil